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Language in the context of use : discourse and cognitive approaches to language /

The volume explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. The emphasis is on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition. The contributors share a usage-based perspect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tyler, Andrea, Kim, Yiyoung, Takada, Mari
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Cognitive linguistics research ; 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. 1. Discourse resources in meaning construction and language processing : discourse management, speaker stance and perspective, cognitive constraints and participant roles: Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces : functional contrasts in language and gesture / Eve Sweetser and Marisa Sizemore ; The role of compound pragmatic markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative / Montserrat González ; Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing / Ruth A. Berman and Dorit Ravid ; Usage-based and form-focused SLA : the implicit and explicit learning of constructions / Nick C. Ellis ; Perspective shifts in ASL narratives : the problem of clause structure / Terry Janzen ; Making dative a case for semantic analysis : differences in use between native and non-native speakers of German / Olga Liamkina ; Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative viewpoint / Barbara Dancygier ; Meaning construction in humorous discourse : context and incongruities in conceptual blending / Akiko Fujii ; Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child English / Michael Israel ; Spanish gustar vs. English like : a cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implications for SLA / Valentina Marras and Teresa Cadierno
  • pt. 2. Applying discourse and corpus perspectives to issues in cognitive linguistics: The development of verb-argument structure in child discourse : on the use of construction variation in peer play / Melissa A. Smith and Nancy Budwig ; Another look at French split intransitivity / Michel Achard ; BORING : it's anything but / Barbara Shaffer ; It's like making a soup : metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse / Carol Lynn Moder ; A discourse approach to metaphor : explaining systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse community / Lynne Cameron ; "Superschemas" and the grammar of metaphorical mappings / Joseph Grady.